Posted by: Aadisht on: June 13, 2012
A while ago, this petition just popped up on my Twitter recommendations: an efficient system to complain against errant auto drivers in Bangalore. I was already having a gloomy day, and this has increased my bile even further. So now I will say this in clear, forceful, and largely impolite terms to all the 1,434 [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: September 1, 2008
Hari the Kid has an article in Citizen Matters about how Bangalore’s musicians don’t have any dedicated place to perform where they aren’t dependent on corporate sponsors, or tickets or entry fees from listeners. But this will require the police to give them permission to perform in public spaces: It had been smooth sailing all [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: May 28, 2008
The second Bangalore photowalk will take place on the first of June. Skimpy has the complete details but here’re the salient points: Date and Time: 1st of June, 7.30 a.m. Route: Ravindra Kalakshetra to Central Jail I won’t be there since I’m moving to Bombay (I’m typing this in BIAL’s swanky new departure terminal), but [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: April 18, 2008
After the grand success of the Sennai potowalks, Skimpy is organising the first ever Bangalore photowalk. Details below: Time and Date: 8 a.m., on Sunday 27 April Venue: K R Road, from K R Market to Gandhi Bazaar All are welcome, regardless of city, caste, or camera. You can show up if you have a [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: February 18, 2008
Ramesh Ramanathan is fuming about Bangalore’s new airport being underdesigned and underconnected (via Ajay Shah’s excellent roundup on infrastructure). As is happening far too often these days, Skimpy beat me to blogging about the main topic. However, that just gives me more stuff to discuss. In fact, I’ll make the whole post an outsider-layperson-dummy’s guide [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: December 12, 2007
Raiders Lost the Arc, the idiotically titled and idiotically written Outlook cover story on how IT is ruining Bangalore, has been debunked and fisked enough elsewhere on the blogosphere (Churumuri rebuts CNR Rao here, Nitin points out what the Outlook story missed here). Sugata Srinivasraju doesn’t ever blame IT junta for ruining infrastructure himself, but he [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: November 15, 2007
I’ll be conducting my first ever quiz for the Karnataka Quiz Association this Sunday. It’s a ranking open, with a History, Geography, and World Culture theme. (The World Culture has been thrown in for the sole purpose of letting me sneak in general questions in case I run out of history and geography fundaes). Before [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: November 4, 2007
BESCOM is doing some sort of maintenance, and so there isn’t any power at my place until nine or ten o’ clock. Since I have to get a lot of questions for next month’s KQA Ranking open ready, I’ve brought my laptop and datacard to the CMH Road Cafe Coffee Day, and I’m blogging from [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: October 25, 2007
Skimpy claims that monsoonal rains follow the Gregorian solar calendar, while post-monsoonal autumn showers follow the Hindu lunar calendar. Thus, there is always rainfall at the time of Dasara, whenever that might be, while the monsoons always show up in June. Every three years, when the leap month is added to bring the lunar year [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: September 8, 2007
I’m glad my Palio isn’t sentient. If it was, it would be miserable. The past week it’s been going to work at 30 kmph on Airport Road, and coming back even slower. It has me to blame for coming home early instead of being a good boy, going to the gym after work, and not [...]